EXODUS OF 160.000 SARAJEVO SERBS DEPICTED ON NEW MURAL, INCLUDING PRIEST ŽUĆO

ISTOČNO NOVO SARAJEVO, NOVEMBER 11 /SRNA/ - A mural dedicated to the exodus of 160,000 Sarajevo Serbs from 1992 to 1996 is being painted in Istočno Novo Sarajevo. It includes a portrait of Archpriest Vojislav Vojo Čarkić, better known as Pop Žućo, who led the procession of Serbs leaving Grbavica.

The mural, on a building near Gavrilo Princip Park, uses symbolic images of graves to depict suffering, the abandonment of homes and the painful decision to exhume the remains of loved ones and move them to Serb territory when leaving Sarajevo.

A special place is given to the cross that Sarajevo Serbs carried out of Grbavica, which was later placed on the new Church of St. George in Miljevići, where Archpriest Vojo is buried in the churchyard.

Archpriest Vojo was a priest who spent the Defensive-Patriotic War on the front line in Grbavica, which became part of the Federation of BiH after the Dayton Agreement was signed.

After the Dayton Agreement was signed, he moved to Istočno Sarajevo together with the Serb people of Grbavica and continued serving at the church in Miljevići.

Murals of Srđan Knežević, commander of the "White Wolves" special unit, Vojvoda Slavko Aleksić, the flag of Republika Srpska and a Serbian military cap have already been painted on buildings in Istočno Novo Sarajevo.